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TIL that Jehovah’s Witnesses have falsely predicted the end of the world 20 times.

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9KNX TIL A fighter jet pilot shot his own plane down by flying into his own bullets
69RYY TIL about Zinaida Portnova, a teenager who poisoned Nazis in WWII.
v1NB8 TIL Poop coffee
5YyDQ TIL Eratosthenes Calculated the circumference of the earth about 2200 years ago. His calculation 40,000 km (in modern units) is within 1% accuracy of earth’s circumference 40, 072 km (measured by orbiting spacecraft).
6EQQ TIL that our Galaxy’s name, the Milky Way, comes from the story of the Greek God Hera spilling milk while breastfeeding an unknown infant.